Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spring snow-lay spread over North Dakota's black prairies like thick, grey sauce. It hugged the buttes and ran melting off the gables of crouton-like barns. Hay and wheat farmers around Bismarck, North Dakota's capital*, slouched to their chores. Horses rubbed restlessly against their stalls. Spring was coming to North Dakota...
...Missouri River, there was anxiety. The river ice and slush was packing up just below the cities. Water was rising with threat of flood. In lowlands the Missouri, streaming from the Rocky Mountain watersheds across Montana and draining North Dakota's Little Missouri, Knife and Heart rivers, had spread from its 500-ft. channel over a 6-mi. runway. The cities were in danger. Officials telegraphed President Hoover, pleading that Army bombers be sent to break the ice jam by dropping explosives...
...great opportunity of the talking moving picture remains, however, the spread of the Anglo-Saxon culture and civilization in the hither most parts of the globe. Wherever the talkies go, a new interest in English on the part of the country's youth is a likely result. For the school boys in the far corners of the globe who learn English for the first time from the lips of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the language will have a rare attraction sure to make it popular...
...clock--Senior Spread and Dance in Memorial Hall...
...Senior Class Chapel Service on the morning of Class Day will be conducted by C. N. Greenough '98. J. E. Barrett '30 has been appointed by the Class Day Committee as Head Class Day Usher for the Juniors and will also officiate as Head Usher for the Senior Spread on June 17. Other appointments will be announced at a later date...